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+1 goodness Trumpsters are ignorant.  How is wanting to cut programs for low income children "caring for American kids". And how many Trumpsters adopt real American children in need of families?

Also, a part of me thinks that the surge in immigrants at the border was created by the Trump administration, kind of a "wag the dog" scenario.  What better way to get people riled up about needing a border wall than creating a mass influx of people at the border wanting to get in. It's weird to me that the numbers surged during the Trump administration, an administration that is notorious for wanting to build a wall.[/quote]

The border crisis started in 2014. Conveniently after word had spread that if you bring your kid to our border they would eventually get amnesty (thanks DACA).[/quote]
Increase in those seeking refugee status:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44319094

[quote]In fiscal year 2018, 92,959 people were deemed to have made claims of credible fear" and asked for asylum at the border. That's a pretty big jump from fiscal year 2017, when 55,584 claims were made.

Kate Jastram, senior staff attorney for the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, says that families fleeing violence in Central America began to make up a much larger part of border crossings beginning in 2014.

She says that has more to do with conditions in those countries than any immigration policy implemented by the Trump administration.

"Single men from Mexico were by and large not seeking asylum, they were looking for work," says Jastram. "[Now] we have families and children specifically seeking protection."
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And actually, Obama did try to address the issue in 2014:

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/basics-border-crisis-how-did-we-get-here-n147601

[quote] The feds have also launched a Spanish language ad campaign to warn would-be immigrants to stay home.[/quote]

But I guess when you are desperate, these kinds of warnings fall on deaf ears.

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